Barbara Babcock Movies and Career Information

Barbara Babcock (born February 27, 1937 in Fort Riley, Kansas) is an American actress who works primarily on television. Although she was born in the United States, she spent a large part of her childhood in Tokyo, Japan, because her father Conrad Stanton Babcock, Jr. was a general in the United States Army. She learned to speak Japanese before English. She attended Miss Porter's School and later Wellesley College, where she was a classmate of Ali McGraw. Babcock won the 1981 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress—Drama Series for her work on Hill Street Blues. She appeared in 16 episodes of the NBC police drama as Grace Gardner. In 1994, she was voted one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World by People magazine.